"Daniel Ellsberg, PhD" (80 minutes)
Daneil Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Ellsberg spoke in Sacramento last year about secrets, lies and ethics from the Viet Nam era through today’s WikiLeaks publications. His presentation was recorded by Media Edge.

"Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem" (25 minutes)
Day 65: Suheir Hammad recites her Baklava and other poems at the Palestine Festival of Literature in Nablus. She recites "Break me" for Mahmoud Darwich as a gift to Sleepless viewers. Meet Ashira's new baby dog Izis who joins her and her mom Wafa to the festival.In Gaza, Hasan Hijaza says flowers are the messengers of peace and love. Meet the flowers of Gaza that remain under siege and cannot fly out to Holland. Flower farmers used to export over 80 million flowers, but exports are now down to 14; they have combined losses of $1,700,000.

"A Stranger in His Own Country" (10 minutes)
Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by sectarian violence and have had to seek refuge in other parts of the country. This is a portrait of Abu Ali, a refugee from Kirkuk living in a displaced person’s camp on the outskirts of Kerbala. He is a peace-loving man with a keen sense of justice, trying to find a way to survive and provide for his family in the difficult circumstances in which they now find themselves.

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